-Edit- A quick listening to some of the tracks it's luckily not the dull kind of prog house. I do hear melody's and such.
But the chance you'll find me listening to 7.5 hours of this is small though.

Overall i think JOOF is a great label and i always look forward to the monthly radio show.

Not wanting to derail this topic, but this debate is probably worth starting a new thread.

In our eyes most of John's set is Trance, but to the new generation its Progressive House.
As John often quotes, 'some of the iconic Trance classics that made the genre so great such as 'Cafe del mar' if released today would be classed as Progressive House. Thats how blurred the Trance genre has become today.

History is repeating itself, many saying this is the rebirth of the original spirit of Trance in its Progressive Trance form. Or what do we call it? Never forget the roots of were Trance music came from, it was born off the back of Techno as its hypnotic psychedelic cousin in the late 80's.

In our eyes most of John's set is Trance, but to the new generation its Progressive House.

Just curious Glenn and a bit of-topic of course. You guys releasing trance music as progressive house nowadays, and we both know the reason of this...

Why is John attending at ASOT? Because in an interview earlier he explains trance will come back stronger than ever if some superstar dj's drop the name trance in their radioshow. Those guys are playing and releasing non- trance as trance music.See beneath. Is it because John thinks it's better promoting good underground trance music(on ASOT) to stay away from such a big event (ASOT parties)? Better promote instead of to absent oneself.

Fueling the flames, he quipped, are certain DJs considered as “leaders” in the trance scene who helped push the genre forward in its early days and still carry its banner despite evolving more into the commercial realm after reaching superstardom. He understands why they do so, however — it all comes down to credibility in the end.

The problem is, “When you look at all these brands, which are branded with the trance name in them and it’s blatantly not trance, it just causes more confusion,” explained Fleming. It’s frustrating and disappointing to watch people’s perception of the genre he’s spent so much time developing change toward a negative direction as a result of such confusion.

He’s not alone in this sentiment: “many say this behind the scenes but never speak out loud.”

Will trance ever enjoy the credibility it once had as a serious genre? Can history come full circle?

A bittersweet shadow invaded John’s voice as he mapped out his view. He knows what could catalyze a swift recovery of trance, arguing, “If these people [the top tier DJs] drop their trance branding and started something new, then that would be the start of helping to clear things up in the trance world.” However, he doubts much will change until that happens.

So that's the reason why Nekyia (Facade Remix) is labelled as trance on the original Forescape Digital release but now on this album all the sudden has become progressive house. It's really confusing i think. Progressive House is becoming one huge container this way, if it ain't that already.

Just curious Glenn and a bit of-topic of course. You guys releasing trance music as progressive house nowadays, and we both know the reason of this...

Why is John attending at ASOT? Because in an interview earlier he explains trance will come back stronger than ever if some superstar dj's drop the name trance in their radioshow. Those guys are playing and releasing non- trance as trance music.See beneath. Is it because John thinks it's better promoting good underground trance music(on ASOT) to stay away from such a big event (ASOT parties)? Better promote instead of to absent oneself.

Fueling the flames, he quipped, are certain DJs considered as “leaders” in the trance scene who helped push the genre forward in its early days and still carry its banner despite evolving more into the commercial realm after reaching superstardom. He understands why they do so, however — it all comes down to credibility in the end.

The problem is, “When you look at all these brands, which are branded with the trance name in them and it’s blatantly not trance, it just causes more confusion,” explained Fleming. It’s frustrating and disappointing to watch people’s perception of the genre he’s spent so much time developing change toward a negative direction as a result of such confusion.

He’s not alone in this sentiment: “many say this behind the scenes but never speak out loud.”

Will trance ever enjoy the credibility it once had as a serious genre? Can history come full circle?

A bittersweet shadow invaded John’s voice as he mapped out his view. He knows what could catalyze a swift recovery of trance, arguing, “If these people [the top tier DJs] drop their trance branding and started something new, then that would be the start of helping to clear things up in the trance world.” However, he doubts much will change until that happens.

I can answer the question from a record label manger perspective (I've been 20 years at JOOF) , Beatport often move releases to genres they chose, it's frustrating and something many labels go through.

In todays market place however, the specialist/underground target audience can be found in Progressive House, Techno etc, if we release specialist 'Trance' in the Trance section of Beatport, it gets completely overlooked. Just look at the current shop window to Trance in Beatport top 100, its full power festival vocal esq tracks, people won't be looking for specialist music here. Trance/Progressive Trance is being released in Progressive House due to this, it's all confusion.

Regarding John and Armin, they are very good friends. Armin really cares about all aspects of Trance and how the conversation came around to support the Progressive wing of Trance and for John to help him out as he sees Johns passion supporting this scene. It worked and we're seeing the growth of the stage and this scene in general growing.

So that's the reason why Nekyia (Facade Remix) is labelled as trance on the original Forescape Digital release but now on this album all the sudden has become progressive house. It's really confusing i think. Progressive House is becoming one huge container this way, if it ain't that already.

See the answer above ^^^

It is confusion, that particular track probably got overlooked by many first time round due to it being originally released in Trance, as per experience in the past, by simply moving them to Progressive House they get discovered by the correct audience and supported.

Ideally we need another Trance genre, something John is working on with Beatport.

So that's the reason why Nekyia (Facade Remix) is labelled as trance on the original Forescape Digital release but now on this album all the sudden has become progressive house. It's really confusing i think. Progressive House is becoming one huge container this way, if it ain't that already.

Well I couldn't tag that one as Progressive House as 90% of progressive DJs like Cid Inc or Hernan Cattaneo don't play this kind of music and just click "Not For Me" and unsubscribe from my promo pool. In my opinion It's Trance music too.

Well I couldn't tag that one as Progressive House as 90% of progressive DJs like Cid Inc or Hernan Cattaneo don't play this kind of music and just click "Not For Me" and unsubscribe from my promo pool. In my opinion It's Trance music too.

From evidence seen 90% of Trance DJ's like Armin, Cosmic Gate, John Askew, Simon Patterson etc haven't supported it either. So here lays the problem, it doesn't fit in either world.

Keep an eye on John's socials as he's going to open up a discussion about this.

From evidence seen 90% of Trance DJ's like Armin, Cosmic Gate, John Askew, Simon Patterson etc haven't supported it either. So here lays the problem, it doesn't fit in either world.

Keep an eye on John's socials as he's going to open up a discussion about this.

You claim that sales are down, yet you seem to get a stage for ASOT. Someone is losing ground here or skewing the facts here. People that want to buy music, will buy it but you trying to create another genre is just going to add to the problem not make things better for both fans and yourself.

It is confusion, that particular track probably got overlooked by many first time round due to it being originally released in Trance, as per experience in the past, by simply moving them to Progressive House they get discovered by the correct audience and supported.

Ideally we need another Trance genre, something John is working on with Beatport.

Uh...no. Both the Trance genre and Progressive house genre at beatport has been butchered to hell because hey, why not? But keep adding more sub-genres thinking that is going to fix the problem.

Doesn't matter how much you've done for the scene, there will always be people like Contact who are impossible to convince in anything. They live in their own world where all DJs are shit and doing wrong things.

Those artists who you promote here don't care about any support from DJs as they don't send out any promo campaigns and don't promote their releases in any way, looks like they're completely OK with that and you are not, this is ridiculous.

You claim that sales are down, yet you seem to get a stage for ASOT. Someone is losing ground here or skewing the facts here. People that want to buy music, will buy it but you trying to create another genre is just going to add to the problem not make things better for both fans and yourself.

I’m not going to waste anymore time on negative people like you, as you are the root problem.Whilst John and Armin (+ many others working dam hard like Solarstone, John Askew, Aly & Fila etc) are investing back into this wonderful Trance genre and making good ground building things, there will always be people like you, criticising from the sidelines.

Either get involved helping, or try to stop being a keyboard warrior. Accept there will always be different flavours to the Trance genre.

Not wanting to derail this topic, but this debate is probably worth starting a new thread.

In our eyes most of John's set is Trance, but to the new generation its Progressive House.
As John often quotes, 'some of the iconic Trance classics that made the genre so great such as 'Cafe del mar' if released today would be classed as Progressive House. Thats how blurred the Trance genre has become today.

History is repeating itself, many saying this is the rebirth of the original spirit of Trance in its Progressive Trance form. Or what do we call it? Never forget the roots of were Trance music came from, it was born off the back of Techno as its hypnotic psychedelic cousin in the late 80's.

I remember in the sleevenotes of the first Euphoria (1999,mixed by PF Project) there was no word of 'Trance' anywhere...in fact it was just called House. And now you look back,that CD is full of the so called Trance anthems hehe.

There a very blurred line between what is Deep/Progressive House and what is Progressive Trance. I mean,what would describe what Deep Dish were playing in the early 2000's?

But having said all that - who really cares? People bring the subject up way too often on here...

What a stupid question that is. Armin has done and still does a hell of a lot for all aspects of the Trance scene - and hes given JOOF and his progressive sound a great slot off the back of the biggest radio show brand there is. Not sure why there is all this anti-Armin feeling on this forum. Just because he releases pop sounding records aswell. If you look deeper,youll realise just how many indie trance record labels he has supported over the years on ASOT.

I’m not going to waste anymore time on negative people like you, as you are the root problem.Whilst John and Armin (+ many others working dam hard like Solarstone, John Askew, Aly & Fila etc) are investing back into this wonderful Trance genre and making good ground building things, there will always be people like you, criticising from the sidelines.

Either get involved helping, or try to stop being a keyboard warrior. Accept there will always be different flavours to the Trance genre.